Passage Theatre, the only professional theatre company in Trenton, will open David Robson's Muleheaded, or Zora and Langston ...

HARLEM, New York City (WABC) -- Langston Hughes was one of the foremost figures of the Harlem Renaissance, where he lived in a brownstone for the last 20 years of his life. Hughes lived in the house ...

The Harlem Renaissance changed the trajectory of American culture, and no other artist encapsulates the spirit of that era better than poet Langston Hughes. He wrote unapologetically about Black life ...

Best known for poems such as “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and fiction such as the wry Semple stories, Hughes was also a prolific letter writer. When his friend Carl Van Vechten started a collection ...

His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in 1926. Throughout his work, ...

In the 1920s and '30s, Langston Hughes was at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. After the movement ended, he didn't go far: The writer moved into a brownstone on Harlem's 127th Street, where he ...

American poet Langston Hughes was driven by a curiosity to explore the culture of African peoples. Such curiosity took Hughes across the world. Three times, it took him to the breezy island nation of ...

Leyla McCalla, formerly of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, had an ambitious idea for her solo debut as a musician. She wanted to take poems by Harlem Renaissance legend Langston Hughes and put them to ...

For over 40 years, the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center (100-01 Northern Boulevard in Corona) has ...

Jalen Ray with back-to-back sacks to end the game. Langston Hughes forces Douglas County to punt, gets the ball at their 25 with 2:30 left. Robert Tyson forces the first turnover of the game with an ...

Langston Hughes was called “the original jazz poet” by novelist and Fisk University librarian Arna Bontemps. The title is well deserved. Best known for his evocative poetry that gave voice to jazz ...